Posts about other Erotic Visual Novels are consistently the most popular, and I haven't done one in a while, so here goes. If you want to see my other posts like this, click on the category "Visual Novels" or just click here. Finding Miranda Story by Tlaero Graphics by Mortze Format: Javascript/HTML Download link Play …
This is the third (or 4th?) look at other games similar to Date Ariane. In fact the creators of all 3 games mentioned Date Ariane as their original inspiration. Of course once you make one game, you try and make something better than your last. My concept of improving was making better pictures and packaging …
It seems the most popular post on my blog is "A Few More Erotic 3D Dating Sims" so maybe I should do more posts like that. Here is a few I found in the last year and a half since that post. Dreaming With Elsa Written by Tlaero Art by Mortze Format HTML using Tlaero's …
For over a decade I have swung on a pendulum between "creative" and "playing" and after three years of mostly being in "creative" mode, I seem to be in a deep "playing" cycle of video games. Hence my lack of blog posts as I generally have little to say while in "playing" mode. One of …
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August is a slow month, so I decided to break the monotony and try out a few Visual Novel Dating Sims created by other people. I played four that are at least interesting enough to check out. Inspiring Celina Story by Superawesomemans Graphics by Sylakone2 Download and Online play link This is the newest and …
Date Ariane 10th Anniversary Part 2 Date Ariane (first released 2004) may not have been the first dating sim to only have a single character, though I don't know any that predate it, and I wasn't influenced by any. Date Ariane may not have been the first dating sim done in 3D graphics, thought I …
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There has been a lot of talk lately about Japan's radically changing society. It started with an article in the Guardian with the viral headline "Why have young people in Japan stop having sex?" The headline was terribly misleading, young people in Japan are having sex. They are just getting married a lot less and …
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More random notes from around the metaverse... The Vanity Google Ever heard the term "vanity google"? It's basically where you google your own name and any online monikers you may use, and it is actually a good idea to do every now and then, especially if you are being cyber bullied. I tried googling myself …
So what is a Visual Novel? Well that depends on what direction you come from. From a static media perspective, the visual novel is a comic book with choices. From a video game perspective, its a graphic adventure game without an inventory to keep track of. They all have text and pictures. Most have choices to make, some tell a linear story (aka Kinetic Visual Novels) without choices. Most are hand drawn graphics. Some have voice over, music, sound effects, some pictures are animated.
It wasn't too long after releasing the first version that I discovered I was wrong. A whole genre of "Dating Sims" had risen and declined in the decade before my game. My ignorance can be forgiven since all of this happened in Japan, and nowhere else.
